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part confirms the continuance of the industries adverted to by the

earlier and more copious writers.

[818] Athenaeus, i, 49.

[819] _Ibid._

[820] Strabo, VII, vi, 2; Pliny, ix, 17, _et seq._

[821] Cosmas, _op. cit._, ii.

[822] Several “embassies” from Rome are mentioned in the Chinese annals, but nothing seems to have been known of them in the West. Stra...